| When you enroll in a course or two from the "School Without
Walls," you study at your own pace. There are no deadlines or specific time
frame to adhere to. You work as your schedule allows. If you are too busy for a period of
time you simply come back to the lessons when you can. If you have a full
"life" but can average even as little as four hours a week, you can make good,
steady progress. What is important is how well you grasp the material and absorb
it. not how fast you go.
For as long as you are working on a course, you
receive our support line help. We answer your questions, help you through tough
assignments and make sure you are really understanding the lessons the way we think you
should.
Our phone support is available from 9:00am - 5:00pm PST, five days a week!
Support through e-mail is available anytime. It is important that you understand and
know that you have the attention and positive backing of master teachers who have a vested
interest in your progress. We can motivate you when you need it, encourage you
when you require support, and generally give you the efficient kind of one-on-one
relationship that makes this study-at-home approach unique in music education.
Our courses work like this:
With all
courses except CAP, you receive a Satisfactory Progress Report for each lesson or
chapter. This is not a test, but a report on how much time you spent on each
aspect of the work. When we receive a Progress Report for each lesson of a course, we
then issue you a Certificate of Completion to acknowledge your successful completion
of the course. A certificate is given for each course and for each Quarter of the
CAP writing program. In this extensive course, all homework and each project is
personally critiqued by Dana Rasch. Students either fax, mail, or e-mail batches of
homework to us and then receive either an e-mail, or phone critique of their work. |
The advantages of our comprehensive courses is that you end up with a
video library of the lessons, so you have every word and example at your fingertips
for review and refreshing your memory. You have an ideal learning environment for
making the progress you wish.
CDs are portable for car or office and CDs and video lectures can be audio CD
taped to take advantage of those 'down times'.
With the Jazz Keyboard and Beyond Chops Guitar courses you practice with CD
play-along tracks. The Keyboard course contains literally hundreds of practice
tracks. You get the experience of and motivation from playing with a rhythm section
which is so important to developing a good "time" feel.
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